The Municipal Commissioner of Mumbai is the chief executive officer of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation. Though the Mayor is the head of the house, his role is largely ceremonial and almost all powers are vested in the Commissioner. The Municipal Commissioner maintains Mumbai, and thus has responsibilities over the sewage system, the school divisions, power companies, roads, and other aspects of local infrastructure. The BEST and the Mumbai Fire Brigade are autonomous bodies under the organization. The commissioner is an Indian Administrative Service officer appointed by the Maharashtra state government. Bhushan Gagrani, IAS, is the current Municipal Commissioner of Mumbai.
List of commissioners The List of Municipal Commissioners of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation since 1946 are as under: Sr No Name Tenure1B.K. Patel February 1946 to September 19522P.R. NayakSeptember 1952 to January 19573V.L. GidhwaniJuly 1954 to August 1954 (Interim) July 1957 to April 19604M.G. PimputkarApril 1960 to February 19625A.U. SheikhFebruary 1962 to April 19636S. A, SukhtankarApril 1963 to April 19667J.H. PatwardhanApril 1966 to April 19698J.B. D'SouzaMay 1969 to March 19709M.N. DesaiMay 1970 to April 197210M.V. DesaiApril 1972 to August 197511B.G. DeshmukhAugust 1975 to May 197812B.K. ChauguleMay 1978 to May 198113D.M. SukhtankarMay 1981 to November 198414Jamshed G. KangaNovember 1984 to July 198615Sadashiv TinaikarJuly 1986 to April 199016P. PadmanabhaiyyaMay 1990 to November 199117Sharad G. KaleNovember 1991 to May 199518J.D. Jadhav-PSMay 1995 to June 199619Girish GokhaleJune 1996 to May 199920K. NalinakshanJune 1999 to May 200021V. RangnathanJune 2000 - January 200122Karun SrivastavaJanuary 2001 - March 200423 Johny Joseph March 2004 - April 200724 Jairaj Phatak May 2007 - October 2009 25Swadhin KshatriyaDecember 2009 -January 201126Subodh KumarJanuary 2011 - May 201227Sitaram KunteMay 2012 - April 201528Ajoy MehtaMay 2015 - May 201929 Praveen Pardeshi May 2019 - May 202030 Iqbal Singh Chahal 8 May 2020 – 21 March 202431 Bhushan Gagrani 21 March 2024 - 30 March 202632 Ashwini Bhide 31 March 2026 - Present
See also Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai(MCGM) or Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) Municipal Corporation Building, Mumbai (for details on the buildings architecture) Coat of arms of Mumbai Administrative divisions of Mumbai Mayor of Mumbai Sheriff of Mumbai
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